Edit: just to be clear, I’m only talking about lemmy.blahaj.zone here. If you’re coming from Kbin or some other instance, this won’t affect you.
I have nothing against porn in general, but LemmyNSFW is a firehose of NSFW content, some of it offensive or toxic, and the admins seem to be shaky on whether they’re prepared for the content. It’s started showing up in my /all/ feed now, and I’m worried.
Essentially the entirety of Lemmy’s porn is getting uploaded to one instance, and I am not at all confident in their ability to moderate it. The idea of a massive instance like that that’s still so young and untested and still trying to figure out whether they are going to allow underage content or not being allowed on my feed makes me really uncomfortable. I could just disable NSFW, but not all NSFW is porn and not all of it comes from that instance.
In addition to the lack of moderation, things I’ve seen that seem to be allowed include: misogyny, slurs for trans people, objectification, straight up rape…
They don’t even have any system of verification for anyone posting on there so they could be spreading CSEM or revenge porn into people’s caches unknowingly. There’s a potential legal risk here too.
Defederating seems more than reasonable. LemmyNSFW is just way too lax on their policies. If people here want to look at porn, they can always make an alt account over there.
Defederation should be an option of last resort, not the first thing people reach for when they start seeing content or engagement they don’t like.
You can block content that you don’t want to see, along with hiding NSFW content so it doesn’t appear for you.
This isn’t a case of “waaah, I don’t like what they say”. These are bad-to-horrible things that explicitly go against our instance’s rules. Why should each individual here have to deal with this? Defederation is an important tool and is what makes the Fediverse better than a centralized platform.
The problem is that it is not tagged NSFW, despite its source being an NSFW server, so its thumbnails come through unblurred.